Ear muffs everyone, sorry.
Forget the 'conversation' I have just had with mother: ('I've brought you some bacon for the assessment in the morning', 'What assessment?' 'The OT coming to observe you cooking a bacon butty', 'Oh, I'd better go out and get some bacon, then.' etc ....) .... it is obvious she is happily trotting off to the corner shop - obvious from the variety of bread which I did not buy for her... which sat alongside the pack of sausages I did not buy for her - in her bread bin ..... !!!
But worse, a carton of eggs found in her fridge - two missing - with a 'use by date' more than a month gone. They were not there yesterday, or the day before, or the day before that etc .... and I just can't fathom where she is stashing food .... which then mysteriously appears somewhere in her kitchen!!!!!! I can manage checking bread bin/fridge etc daily - but I can't do a thorough search of everywhere in the house every day.
Sorry, I realise it's very trivial in the great scheme of things - but given I cited my main worries to OT last week as 'security' (locking her door/not using the cooker etc) ... I'm am increasingly worried she is at far higher risk of giving herself food poisoning. Short of putting the neighbours on red alert if they see her arriving home with a shopping bag, anything I can do? Or is this one of those 'risks' we are just going to have to live with?
Have rung and left message for OT but anyone got any ideas?
Thanks for listening - can take ear muffs off again now.
Karen, x
Forget the 'conversation' I have just had with mother: ('I've brought you some bacon for the assessment in the morning', 'What assessment?' 'The OT coming to observe you cooking a bacon butty', 'Oh, I'd better go out and get some bacon, then.' etc ....) .... it is obvious she is happily trotting off to the corner shop - obvious from the variety of bread which I did not buy for her... which sat alongside the pack of sausages I did not buy for her - in her bread bin ..... !!!
But worse, a carton of eggs found in her fridge - two missing - with a 'use by date' more than a month gone. They were not there yesterday, or the day before, or the day before that etc .... and I just can't fathom where she is stashing food .... which then mysteriously appears somewhere in her kitchen!!!!!! I can manage checking bread bin/fridge etc daily - but I can't do a thorough search of everywhere in the house every day.
Sorry, I realise it's very trivial in the great scheme of things - but given I cited my main worries to OT last week as 'security' (locking her door/not using the cooker etc) ... I'm am increasingly worried she is at far higher risk of giving herself food poisoning. Short of putting the neighbours on red alert if they see her arriving home with a shopping bag, anything I can do? Or is this one of those 'risks' we are just going to have to live with?
Have rung and left message for OT but anyone got any ideas?
Thanks for listening - can take ear muffs off again now.
Karen, x